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Preserving the Past
Daniel Trabue House
Adair County’s town seat of Columbia was
established “at the intersection of two buffalo
trails near Russell Creek” in 1802 with one of
the primary founders being pioneer Daniel Tra-
bue, who built a home overlooking the town
square in 1823. The home, listed on the Na-
tional Register of Historic Places, still stands
today and serves as a museum of Adair County
history.
Columbia is well known for the
stately, beautiful courthouse standing in
the center of the public square.
The courthouse is currently main-
tained by county government, and local
preservation efforts are underway to re-
store and repurpose the grand facility
that has been a cornerstone of the com-
munity for decades.
The Adair
Heritage Associa-
tion is funding a
project to preserve
historical markers
throughout Adair
Photo courtesy of Jason Mardis County.
Ed Vincent, a
The Janice Holt Giles House offers a member of the
unique look into the history of famous group, was enlisted to restore several historical
historical novelist Janice Holt Giles. His- markers including the restoration of the historical
torical novels by Giles have sold more marker in front of the Trabue Russell House on
than three million copies. Giles used the Jamestown Street and markers situated around the
Green River region’s landscape as a back- Historic Courthouse on the Public Square.
drop for many of her writings. The Giles Some of these markers have been around for
House is located at 380 Spout Springs more than six or seven decades and weathering had
Rd., Columbia. rendered some unreadable. HISTORY
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